PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 4 January 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL.

VICEREGAL. The Governor-General and Lady Alice Fergusson are making their farewell visit to Auckland. They attended the last two davs of the Auckland Racing Club’s meeting, being farewelled on the last day. Yesterday they visited several institutions and the GovernorGeneral said good-bye to the veterans. In the afternoon her Excellency was farewelled by the women of Auckland. Three presentations were made, one being frcm Maori women and speeches of farewell expressed deep appreciation of the services rendered by her Excellency to the causes of womankind. The citizens' farewell will take place in the Town Hall to-night and their Excellencies will leave for Wellington tomorrow night. Mr and r "~s Beaumont ./ere passengers from the north this morning. Mr H. P. Donald, Chief Postmaster at Auckland, is visiting Christchurch. The Rev E. P. Blamires arrived from Wellington by the ferry steamer yesterday morning. Mr Max Pohl and Mr O. Sommer arrived from Wellington by this morning’s ferry steamer. Captain Worrall, Captain Stringer, and Captain Macindoe were passengers from the north this morning. - Messrs E. R. Norman, J. W. Hood (Wellington) and M. Pohl (Sydney) are staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Messrs P. Hereford (Wellington), P. L. Robinson (Mount Palm), and P. M. Aikman (Dunedin) are guests at Warner’s Hotel. Miss May Andrew will leave this evening for Wellington, to take part in the New Zealand tennis championships. Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and Countess Craigavon, passed through Christchurch this morning on their way to the Franz Josef Glacier. They will return to Christchurch next Thursday. Messrs H. A. Champion. A E Ramsden, H. L. Horsley. C. Hughes C G. Prevost. F. Kreiner-Grange, A ’m! Tartakover. H. E. Kirby (Wellington). A. E. Flood and R. Cau (Sydney) are among the guests at the United Service Hotel. Adjutant H. Goffin, of Auckland, who has been appointed to take charge under Brigadier F. W. Burton, of the Christchurch Corps of the Salvation Army, will arrive here next Thursday. He will be accompanied by his wife and his son, who is leading cornetist. Mr Robert Henry Boyd, late chief postmaster at Wellington, died at Hamilton last evening, aged fifty-six years. He was formerly chief postmaster at Hamilton. He was a cadet at Hawera, second money order clerk at Wanganui, postmaster at Morrinsville and chief postmaster at Thames. —Press Association. Dr E. Markham Lee, examiner to the Associated Board Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, London, arrived in Christchurch last evening, after spending a holiday at Mount Cook. He will be in Christchurch until January 11. He has been examining continuously in New Zealand for more than five months. Dr Philip Fennelly, LL.D., who conducted in 1928 a series of public lectures and students’ classes in phychology in the main cities of the Dominion, expects to re-visit Christchurch to conduct a similar series in August in connection with his second world tour, which will then be nearing completion. He will be accompanied by Mrs Fennelly.